And we're in a hole now ...
While watching Game Two of the American League Championship Series earlier this weekend, I told my daughter that it was a must win game for the Red Sox, despite their 10-3 victory in Game One. Primarily because throwing Dice-K, who has struggled as of late, and Tim Wakefield in Games Three and Four - on the road - didn't set up well for Boston to recover.
And though her response was drooling and giggling, I've been proven right as the Indians have won two straight to take a 2-1 series lead. In the grand scheme of things, however, I'm not sure either Cleveland or Boston would want to win the pennant this year seeing how the Rockies haven't lost since the Ford Administration.
Then again, I would gladly trade a Red Sox world championship for a Georgia victory over Florida in two weeks.
And though her response was drooling and giggling, I've been proven right as the Indians have won two straight to take a 2-1 series lead. In the grand scheme of things, however, I'm not sure either Cleveland or Boston would want to win the pennant this year seeing how the Rockies haven't lost since the Ford Administration.
Then again, I would gladly trade a Red Sox world championship for a Georgia victory over Florida in two weeks.
posted by Jmac at 8:48 AM
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If you are willing to bow out of the series now, I am sure my Indians will love to have a shot at the Rockies. At least they can't look any worse than the Braves did in the 99 series against the Yanks.
I just can't figure out why Francona tinkered with the rotation. I would rather have a veteran in Schilling pitching Game Three on the road than Dice-K.
Also, now we're set up for Dice-K pitching a possible Game Seven over either Beckett or Schilling.
But, no ... not yet. We'll stick around and see if we can actually get some hits with runners on base.
Your nobility sir, is now confirmed.
Just anecdotally, it seems like every time Sox fans get all, "Oh, god...Not Wake. Not now," he goes out and throws a good game.
Despite all the endurance stories from his teen years, Dice-K just looks like he's flat-out gassed right now.
Ultimately, though, I think you're right...If the Sox rake, it all becomes moot.
I've lobbied for trading Wakefield every year since 1999 ... and each time he surprises me.
Hey let's not overlook local boy Jake Westbrook pitching a whale of a game last night...kid's sinker was moving!
Tonight is absolutley crucial for MY Tribe (just like Josh, they have become MY team but then again any team that plays the Red Sox automatically becomes MY team)...if they go up 3-1 giving CC a chance to clinch at home, could be party in the streets time - but letting the Sox tie it back up and having to go back to Fenway - well,let's not think about that.
... just like Josh, they have become MY team but then again any team that plays the Red Sox automatically becomes MY team ...
It's only marginally depressing you take this much joy in opposing a team that has little to no connection to you.
But, then again, when you're a Orioles fan ...
Their connection to him is that they consistently do harm to the team that is close to him. So, the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
Jmac - you might have shared the narrative before . . . but indulge me. How does a boy from Augusta become a Red Sox fan? Particularly when the formative years (in the 90's) correspond with the dominance of the Braves . . .
Mom's family is from New England, so I was the kid who pulled for the Patriots at the bus stop when everyone else cheered for the Bears and cried when the ball went through Buckner's legs.
I am a Braves fan though. I really got caught up in the run in the 1990s, as did most Georgians.
But I freely admit I was fairweather.
Plus, Jeff Francouer bugs me. Though I do love some Brian McCann. He's a gamer.
Oh...I could go on for HOURS about all the personal harm the Red Sox have done to me and it's not about them beating up on the Orioles because EVERYONE beats up on the Orioles...
...from all of my peers growing up in Maryland jumping ship from the Orioles to the Red Sox because the O's were so horrifically awful and then acting like they had been Red Sox fans since the days of Williams and Johnny Pesky...to family members (I won't name names BROTHER IN LAW) who was born in Baltimore but is inexplicably a Red Sox fan...to the legions of bandwagon jumpers across America who fill stadiums from Seattle to Tampa screaming YOOOOK like they were born in the shadows of Fenway but probably couldn't name more than 5 players on the team...to the incessant whining of real Red Sox fans about the curse, about how they are victimized by the Yankees, about how HARD it is to be a Red Sox fan...when in fact they ARE the Yankees, the spend and spend and spend just like the Yankees, the make the playoffs every year like the Yankees and finally...it's starting to seem like America is beginning to hate them like the Yankees....
sorry I blacked out there for awhile - where am I?
Oh and before I forget - YYEEAHHH TRIBE!
And that Man-Ram arm pump and 3 hour circling of the bases to celebrate being down by 4 in the game did nothing to help the Red Sox from becoming the new villian of America.
Sorry - that was rambling and at times incoherent but bubbling hatred will do that to you.
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